Data Archive

I see too often customers struggling to find the right exception and compression settings. When exception/compression are not well defined, they end up having too many values or missing values, what causes a lot of problems when the affected tag i...

Many of the tuning parameters have units, but the unit can only be found in the tuning parameter's description and is not written consistently (sometimes written in full, sometimes abbreviated, sometimes written as a symbol). Linking the tuning pa...

It would be helpful to determine which users or applications made heavy requests to the Data Archive Server. This could be an option to be activated or not. Logging the ip, user identity, concerned tags, duration of the request Those information a...

To take full advantage of AF and substitution parameters it would be great to have a sort of type ID. Now i have to rename all tags to gain this possibility. It would be easy if i could use a portion of the tag name and a  type id. Then i cou...

I have a particular application for storing partial discharge events into the PI Server.  Many of the events are at the same timestamp, which result in multiple events at the same time.

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...

To bring back Archive activity grid which brings many insights for the administrators for archive health monitoring. My suggestion is to maybe enhance it and provide a UI base functionality, similar to PI AuditViewer.

The pidiag -xa utility doesn't support selecting a folder location and exporting the contents to a single XML/TXT file. This would be very helpful for bulk auditing actions.

Current functionality: When changing a point from digital set A to digital set B, all events going forward will use digital set B. If you do not reprocess the archives, the events that were archived before the digital state was changed remain asso...

We've successfully migrated our entire PI System into the AWS environment. Therefore it would be very nice if the pibackup.bat script would be able to directly backup to an S3 bucket.